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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

German physicist

Born 1 July 1742 · died 24 February 1799, aged 56

Who was alive at the same time as Georg Christoph Lichtenberg?

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 – 1750
  2. Voltaire, 1694 – 1778
  3. Benjamin Franklin, 1706 – 1790
  4. Leonhard Euler, 1707 – 1783
  5. Carl Linnaeus, 1707 – 1778
  6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712 – 1778
  7. Adam Smith, 1723 – 1790
  8. Immanuel Kant, 1724 – 1804
  9. James Cook, 1728 – 1779
  10. George Washington, 1732 – 1799
  11. John Adams, 1735 – 1826
  12. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742 – 1799
  13. Thomas Jefferson, 1743 – 1826
  14. Francisco Goya, 1746 – 1828
  15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 – 1832
  16. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 – 1791
  17. Friedrich Schiller, 1759 – 1805
  18. Ludwig van Beethoven, c. 1770 – 1827
  19. Napoleon, 1769 – 1821
  20. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1770 – 1831
  21. Jane Austen, 1775 – 1817
  22. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1777 – 1855
  23. Lord Byron, 1788 – 1824
  24. Michael Faraday, 1791 – 1867

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When Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born, George Washington was 10, Johann Sebastian Bach was 57, Voltaire was 47, Immanuel Kant was 18 and Jean-Jacques Rousseau was 30.

When Georg Christoph Lichtenberg died, Napoleon was 29, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was 49, George Washington was 67, Immanuel Kant was 74 and Thomas Jefferson was 55.

Born during Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s lifetime: Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron, Jane Austen and Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Not quite contemporaries: Abraham Lincoln was born about 10 years after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg died, Charles Darwin was born about 10 years after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg died, Victor Hugo was born about 3 years after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg died and Charles Dickens was born about 13 years after Georg Christoph Lichtenberg died.

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

360 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1771.

  1. Napoleon 1769 – 1821
  2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 – 1832
  3. George Washington 1732 – 1799
  4. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756 – 1791
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven c. 1770 – 1827
  6. Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 – 1750
  7. Voltaire 1694 – 1778
  8. Immanuel Kant 1724 – 1804
  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712 – 1778
  10. Adam Smith 1723 – 1790
  11. Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826
  12. Lord Byron 1788 – 1824
  13. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790
  14. Carl Linnaeus 1707 – 1778
  15. Jane Austen 1775 – 1817
  16. Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 – 1855
  17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770 – 1831
  18. Leonhard Euler 1707 – 1783
  19. John Adams 1735 – 1826
  20. James Cook 1728 – 1779
  21. Francisco Goya 1746 – 1828
  22. Friedrich Schiller 1759 – 1805
  23. Michael Faraday 1791 – 1867
  24. Hokusai 1760 – 1849
  25. James Madison 1751 – 1836
  26. Simón Bolívar 1783 – 1830
  27. Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860
  28. Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
  29. Heinrich Heine 1797 – 1856
  30. John Quincy Adams 1767 – 1848
  31. Andrew Jackson 1767 – 1845
  32. Jonathan Swift 1667 – 1745
  33. William Blake 1757 – 1827
  34. Montesquieu 1689 – 1755
  35. George Frideric Handel 1685 – 1759
  36. James Watt 1736 – 1819
  37. David Hume 1711 – 1776
  38. Joseph Haydn 1732 – 1809
  39. James Monroe 1758 – 1831
  40. Catherine the Great 1729 – 1796
  41. Denis Diderot 1713 – 1784
  42. Martin Van Buren 1782 – 1862
  43. John Keats 1795 – 1821
  44. Zachary Taylor 1784 – 1850
  45. James Buchanan 1791 – 1868
  46. James K. Polk 1795 – 1849
  47. John Tyler 1790 – 1862
  48. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 – 1822
  49. Alexander von Humboldt 1769 – 1859
  50. William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850
  51. William Henry Harrison 1773 – 1841
  52. Walter Scott 1771 – 1832
  53. Stendhal 1783 – 1842
  54. Thomas Paine 1737 – 1809
  55. Samuel Johnson 1709 – 1784
  56. Marie Antoinette 1755 – 1793
  57. Maximilien Robespierre 1758 – 1794
  58. Joseph Fourier 1768 – 1830
  59. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780 – 1867
  60. Mary Shelley 1797 – 1851
  61. Auguste Comte 1798 – 1857
  62. Mary Wollstonecraft 1759 – 1797
  63. Antoine Lavoisier 1743 – 1794
  64. Adam Mickiewicz 1798 – 1855
  65. Pierre-Simon Laplace 1749 – 1827
  66. Louis XVI 1754 – 1793
  67. Frederick the Great 1712 – 1786
  68. Edmund Burke 1729 – 1797
  69. Robert Burns 1759 – 1796
  70. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 – 1834
  71. Alexander Pope 1688 – 1744
  72. Eugène Delacroix 1798 – 1863
  73. André-Marie Ampère 1775 – 1836
  74. Thomas Carlyle 1795 – 1881
  75. Alessandro Volta 1745 – 1827
  76. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1717 – 1783
  77. William Herschel 1738 – 1822
  78. Edward Jenner 1749 – 1823
  79. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762 – 1814
  80. Novalis 1772 – 1801
  81. Charles Babbage 1791 – 1871
  82. John Dalton 1766 – 1844
  83. Giacomo Leopardi 1798 – 1837
  84. Alexander I of Russia 1777 – 1825
  85. George Berkeley 1685 – 1753
  86. Mikhail Lomonosov 1711 – 1765
  87. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 – 1829
  88. Washington Irving 1783 – 1859
  89. Alphonse de Lamartine 1790 – 1869
  90. Pope Pius IX 1792 – 1878
  91. George III 1738 – 1820
  92. Carl von Clausewitz 1780 – 1831
  93. Alessandro Manzoni 1785 – 1873
  94. Gioachino Rossini 1792 – 1868
  95. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 1729 – 1781
  96. Louis XV 1710 – 1774
  97. Maria Theresa 1717 – 1780
  98. Giacomo Casanova 1725 – 1798
  99. Marquis de Sade 1740 – 1814
  100. Jeremy Bentham 1748 – 1832
  101. Thomas Robert Malthus 1766 – 1834
  102. Nicholas I of Russia 1796 – 1855
  103. Edward Gibbon 1737 – 1794
  104. Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson 1758 – 1805
  105. Joseph-Louis Lagrange 1736 – 1813
  106. Alexander Hamilton 1757 – 1804
  107. Niccolò Paganini 1782 – 1840
  108. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 1769 – 1852
  109. Georg Ohm 1789 – 1854
  110. Johann Gottfried Herder 1744 – 1803
  111. Humphry Davy 1778 – 1829
  112. Charles-Augustin de Coulomb 1736 – 1806
  113. Shaka c. 1787 – 1828
  114. Nikolai Lobachevsky 1792 – 1856
  115. Anders Celsius 1701 – 1744
  116. Hans Christian Ørsted 1777 – 1851
  117. Pope Gregory XVI 1765 – 1846
  118. Wilhelm von Humboldt 1767 – 1835
  119. David Ricardo 1772 – 1823
  120. Amedeo Avogadro 1776 – 1856
  121. Samuel Morse 1791 – 1872
  122. Isabelle de Charrière 1740 – 1805
  123. Pope Pius VII 1742 – 1823
  124. William IV 1765 – 1837
  125. Friedrich Hölderlin 1770 – 1843
  126. Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 1732 – 1799
  127. Klemens von Metternich 1773 – 1859
  128. Carlo Goldoni 1707 – 1793
  129. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord 1754 – 1839
  130. Paul I of Russia 1754 – 1801
  131. Jacques-Louis David 1748 – 1825
  132. George IV 1762 – 1830
  133. François-René de Chateaubriand 1768 – 1848
  134. Joseph Priestley 1733 – 1804
  135. James Fenimore Cooper 1789 – 1851
  136. Georges Danton 1759 – 1794
  137. Pope Leo XII 1760 – 1829
  138. Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling 1775 – 1854
  139. E. T. A. Hoffmann 1776 – 1822
  140. Wilhelm I 1797 – 1888
  141. Pope Benedict XIV 1675 – 1758
  142. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 1707 – 1788
  143. Germaine de Staël 1766 – 1817
  144. Thomas Young 1773 – 1829
  145. Caspar David Friedrich 1774 – 1840
  146. Robert Walpole 1676 – 1745
  147. Pope Pius VI 1717 – 1799
  148. Alexander Suvorov 1730 – 1800
  149. Henry Cavendish 1731 – 1810
  150. Louis XVIII 1755 – 1824